Tenets of quantum mechanics and special relativity, among other theoretical ideas, lead inexorably to string theory.

Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have uncovered new hints that certain particle decays may not behave as the ...

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If you have attended a night sky outreach event, conducted, for example, by the Black Canyon Astronomical Society or the ...

You probably know that Einstein changed the face of physics with his theory of relativity in his twenties. What you may not ...

You probably know that Einstein changed the face of physics with his theory of relativity in his twenties. What you may not ...

They were an unlikely pairing of two people to become life long friends. When they met in 1937, Albert Einstein was a world renowned physicist who made his mark in the world with his theory of ...

A new type of self-interacting dark matter could provide solutions to three very different cosmic puzzles, new research ...

Cutting-edge atomic clocks may soon reveal a strange possibility: time itself behaving like a quantum object, existing in ...

Modern cosmology assumes dark matter exists. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is the answer—and what if we're ...

Physicists are rethinking one of quantum mechanics’ biggest puzzles: how fuzzy possibilities become definite reality. New ...

The implications of quantum mechanics suggest reality isn't as solid as we think it is, but physicist David Bohm had a spin ...